Start your network option, and if wifi is available near your terminal then it can identify from your wifi detector. You can connect it from that wifi address and can use the internet as same. Some more wiki also available in internet, you can also take help from it.

not with fluxbox mint on my system ... with regular gnome mint - yes it works. (that was the reason for the post in the first place) - wiki info good reference ... but no help with this issue - Thanks tho for the response